POLITICAL VIOLENCE ARCHIVE

80 cryptocurrency transfers. $30,116. A self-described leader of a domestic extremist network that has vandalized federal buildings, targeted an MIT professor by name, and praised a political assassin. This is what the Justice Department says was happening in Irondequoit, New York.

Charles J. Kirk — founder of Turning Point USA, conservative activist, and nationally prominent political commentator — was shot and killed at 12:23 PM on September 10, 2025, while hosting a public outdoor event on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. The event was the first in a planned series of college campus appearances nationwide.

Two murdered. Two critically wounded. Four locations. One night. A fake police badge. A hyper-realistic silicone mask. A list of 45 elected officials. And a handwritten letter to the FBI signed "Dr. Vance Luther Boelter" admitting everything. He pleaded guilty to all six counts. Sentencing is pending.

May 9, 2025. A congressional oversight visit. A mayor arrested for trespassing. A red blazer in the crowd. A grand jury indictment signed by U.S. Attorney Alina Habba. And a constitutional question that may reach the Supreme Court: where does legislative immunity end and criminal liability begin?

A demonstration outside Newark's Delaney Hall ICE Detention Facility. A locked-arm line that refused to move. A kick, a struggle — and then Brendan John Geier's own words after waiving Miranda: "I started biting and trying to struggle to break free."

A pre-loaded backpack. A lit road flare thrown at 9:51 PM. A vehicle gate set ablaze. Three minutes until extinguishment. The FBI's Domestic Terrorism Unit identified, tracked, and prosecuted the man on camera — and got a conviction.

A Reed College computer science graduate. A large rock thrown at close range into an opening door. A 2-inch gash above a federal officer's eye. A leaf tattoo and a silver bracelet that made the case — and a federal prison sentence that ended it.

On the night of July 4, 2025, a North Texas Antifa Cell of at least eleven operatives — dressed in black bloc, armed with 11 firearms and explosives, equipped with body armor and encrypted radios — executed a coordinated paramilitary attack on the Prairieland Detention Center, a DHS/ICE immigration detention facility in Alvarado, Texas. Cell leader Benjamin Hanil Song, a former U.S. Marine with an Other Than Honorable discharge who had trained the cell in firearms and close-quarters combat, yelled "Get to the rifles!" when an Alvarado Police Department officer arrived on scene, then opened fire — shooting the officer in the neck. Song continued firing at unarmed DHS correctional officers until his binary-trigger-modified AR-15 jammed. The attack followed weeks of encrypted Signal planning, an in-person gear check on July 3, and same-day reconnaissance of the facility. Nine defendants have been charged in a Second Superseding Federal Indictment including Providing Material Support to Terrorists (18 U.S.C. § 2339A), Riot, Use of Explosives, and three counts of Attempted Murder of Federal Officers. All defendants are in federal custody. Trial verdict: March 13, 2026.

On the morning of September 24, 2025, Joshua Jahn, 29, of Fairview, Texas, drove to the Dallas ICE field office with a long ladder and an 8mm bolt-action rifle he had legally purchased one month prior. He climbed to the roof of a nearby office building, positioned himself overlooking the facility's sallyport, and opened fire on ICE transport vehicles carrying personnel, federal agents, and detainees. One ICE detainee was killed. Two others were critically wounded. No law enforcement officers were shot. Jahn died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on the rooftop. Shell casings recovered at the scene had "Anti-ICE" written on them. Handwritten notes found at his residence stated he wanted to give ICE agents "real terror" and referred to them as "people showing up to collect a dirty paycheck." His devices contained apps to track ICE agent locations, a downloaded list of DHS facilities, ballistics research, and video of the Charlie Kirk assassination. The FBI called it a targeted, ambush-style, politically motivated attack — and explicitly identified it as the second attack on an ICE facility in North Texas in recent months, coming 82 days after the July 4, 2025 Prairieland Detention Center attack. The case is closed. No prosecution is possible. The perpetrator is dead.

On April 25, 2026, Cole Tomas Allen — a 31-year-old Caltech graduate, part-time teacher, and left-wing activist from Torrance, California — executed a weeks-long premeditated plan to assassinate President Donald J. Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. Allen booked his room at the Washington Hilton three weeks in advance, traveled cross-country by Amtrak from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. with a legally purchased 12-gauge shotgun, a .38 caliber pistol, and three knives, and at 8:40 PM ran through a Secret Service security checkpoint and fired on USSS Officer V.G., striking him once in the chest. The officer survived due to his ballistic vest, returned fire, and took Allen down. Minutes before the attack, Allen had sent a pre-scheduled manifesto email to his family signed "Cole 'coldForce' 'Friendly Federal Assassin' Allen" — detailing his targets, his rules of engagement, and his motive. His target list covered the President, the Vice President, and Cabinet Secretaries — with one explicit exception: FBI Director Kash Patel. Allen was charged with three federal counts including Attempt to Assassinate the President of the United States. NFA documents every detail from the federal record.

On September 15, 2024, Ryan Wesley Routh, 59, concealed himself in a sniper's hide along the fence line of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida for nearly 12 hours — armed with a Norinco SKS rifle with an obliterated serial number, 20 rounds of ammunition, steel armor plates, and a camera mounted on the fence pointed directly at the sixth green where then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump was about to play. United States Secret Service Special Agent Robert Fercano spotted Routh's rifle barrel protruding from the fence line, fired at Routh, and prevented what would have been the assassination of a sitting presidential candidate — Routh fled in a black Nissan Xterra, was apprehended on I-95, and was later convicted by a federal jury on all five counts including attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate, ultimately receiving a sentence of life plus 84 months.

On July 13, 2024, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, fired eight shots at former President Donald J. Trump from the rooftop of the AGR International building adjacent to the Butler County Fairgrounds in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump was struck in the right ear. Three other attendees were hit — Corey Comperatore was killed, David Dutch and James Copenhaver were injured. Two improvised explosive devices with remote detonation capability were recovered from Crooks' vehicle. Crooks was neutralized by a USSS counter-sniper. The U.S. Senate concluded a year-long investigation finding that Secret Service received a warning about a suspicious individual with a rangefinder 25 minutes before shots were fired — and failed to act on it. At least 10 asset requests to protect Trump during the 2024 campaign were denied by USSS headquarters. Not a single Secret Service employee was fired.

Kyle Wagner, self-identified Antifa member and Minneapolis resident, is the only defendant in the Operation DAMN conspiracy charged in two separate federal courts. Facing five total charges including cyberstalking, interstate threats, and solicitation to commit violence against federal officers, Wagner ran a public social media campaign calling for armed resistance against ICE — accumulating tens of thousands of likes per post — before doxxing a private Michigan civilian with a personal threat. He was arrested June 16, 2026 wearing a sweatshirt reading "I'M ANTIFA!"

Fifteen members of Direct Action Minnesota (DAMN), a self-described anarchist organization with confirmed Antifa affiliation, were indicted on eight federal counts including conspiracy to impede federal officers, solicitation to commit violence, interstate threats, interstate stalking, assault on federal officers, and destruction of government property. Operating out of Minneapolis from January through June 2026, the group used military-style Czech hedgehog obstacles, homemade shields, encrypted Signal networks, and a real-time ICE vehicle surveillance database to blockade the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building and hunt federal immigration officers — including following agents across state lines to their homes. One defendant used her vehicle as a weapon to ram a federal officer's car; another threatened to murder a federal agent on public social media while wearing a bulletproof vest. That is publication-ready. Three sentences, factually sourced entirely from the indictment and DHS press release, nothing added or speculated.

The FBI says a network of online extremists planned to attack officials and attendees at UFC Freedom 250 on the White House lawn. No Filter America examines the criminal complaint, evidence, and planning documents behind the alleged conspiracy. Subjects: Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez Tycen Proper Bryan Omar Roa Michael Alan Thomas Daniel Eskridge